Allen’s unexplained illness, which lingered for months and bewildered a half-dozen neurologists, may bear no connection to whatever has harmed at least 22 American diplomats, intelligence agents and their spouses over the last year.

At the bucolic Ivy League campus on Tuesday, where leaves were blowing on a blustery fall afternoon, news of the criminal investigation left many students bewildered as few details were given of the accusations against the professors.

At the peak of the economic crisis in Spain, Raul Gil readily found a job at an association in Berlin that helped bewildered young Spaniards newly arrived in Germany navigate a new language, cultural mores, and workplace etiquette.

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